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A concert with the spotlight on Lutoslawski's great Indian summer, featuring the extrovert Piano
Concerto, his beautiful and often teasing settings of Robert Desnos 's nonsense poems, which created such a stir at their 1991 Proms premiere, and the powerful Fourth Symphony, his last major orchestral work. Conductor Mark Wigglesworth , Martin Roscoe (piano),
Valdine Anderson (soprano)
Lutoslawski Musique Funebre; Piano Concerto: Chantefleurs et
Chantefables; Symphony No 4 See also 7.30pm

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Michelene Wandor chairs a round-table discussion on trends in early music performance. The participants include David Wulstan , scholar and former director of the Clerkes of Oxenford.
Producer Antony Pitts

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Hugh MacDiarmid is arguably
Scotland's greatest 20th-century poet and is second only to Robert Burns as a source of lyrics for Scottish composers. Brian Morton explores the musicality of MacDiarmid's poetry and discovers what part his friendship with composers such as Francis George Scott ,
Ronald Stevenson and Sorabji, played in his recognition as a composer in words. Producer Helen Munro

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By Lee Hall. Peter returns home to poverty in Newcastle from active service in Northern Ireland. He is a wounded man (his testicles have been blown off), and his relationships with his wife and friends deteriorate. As the outsider, he sees the corruption of everyday existence, but he is unable to salvage some dignity from his situation. Gristle is based on Ernst
Toller's twenties play Hinkerman, which deals with the effect of war on the lives of ordinary people.
Director Kate Rowland

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Richard Widdess explores the wide range of traditional music of faith and festival on the Indian subcontinent.
2: Telling the Story
Sacred legends such as the Ramayana and the tales of Krishna and the milkmaids are told through the medium of dance, drama and recitation in the temples of Kerala, southern India, and in the northern temples of Mathura and Vrindaban as well as in rural Bengal. In Rajasthan, the epic of Pabuji is performed by a singing, dancing violinist, while in Sindh, in present-day Pakistan, the Islamic story of the Sohni is a metaphor for the soul's spiritual journey.

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